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Introduced November 18, 2025 by John R. Curtis · Last progress November 18, 2025
The bill increases platform responsibility and creates a private right of action to reduce algorithm-driven harms (especially to children) but trades off higher legal and compliance costs, potential service changes, and legal uncertainty that could push platforms to alter or remove recommendation features and strain mid-sized businesses.
Users — especially children and youth — could face fewer algorithm-driven harms because platforms must use reasonable care to prevent foreseeable injury or death from recommendation systems.
Victims and families gain a direct route to compensation through a new private right of action for qualifying injuries and deaths caused by recommendations.
Smaller platforms (under 1,000,000 users), private enterprise tools, and teleconferencing services are exempted, reducing compliance burdens for many small businesses and niche services.
Many users could face higher costs or altered services if social platforms raise prices, add fees, or remove free features to manage new legal and compliance costs.
Broad definitions of 'recommendation-based algorithms' could chill algorithmic innovation or prompt platforms to disable recommendation features, reducing personalized content and utility for users.
New litigation exposure and potential punitive damages may increase legal costs for platforms and lead to cost-shifting to users or advertisers (through higher fees or changed terms).
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Removes Section 230 immunity and creates liability for social media platforms whose recommendation algorithms negligently cause foreseeable bodily injury or death, with a private right of action.
Imposes a new legal duty on social media platforms that use recommendation algorithms to exercise reasonable care in how those algorithms are designed, trained, tested, deployed, operated, and maintained to prevent foreseeable bodily injury or death tied to the algorithm. Platforms that fail this duty lose Section 230(c)(1) immunity for those harms and can be sued by injured persons (or their representatives) for compensatory and punitive damages; certain small or single-purpose services are excluded and First Amendment limits on enforcement are preserved.